Stick with 2.1.4 -- not ready for prime-time - j.warbler.madman

Is it possible that it is labelled as a BETA for that exact reason?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle#Beta

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Monday, September 14 2009 @ 12:11 PM PDT

Stick with 2.1.4 -- not ready for prime-time - jeffsters1

Spoken like someone not in the software industry. A beta "should" run well for a majority of users. There should be no obvious crashing bugs or features disabled or rendered inoperable. That would be pre-beta or alpha sometimes called a development build. Beta is to find hidden bugs or bugs that only rear their ugly head in very specific non-standard situations.

Now the poster is letting people know there are some serious issues. We don't know if this is broad or isolated yet. But regardless he's doing a service to let others better evaluate if the issues fixed are important enough to risk the issues listed above.

In other words there's no reason to play "Mr. Obvious"!

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Monday, September 14 2009 @ 03:26 PM PDT